VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

Course Overview
This five-day course features intensive hands-on training that focuses on installing, configuring, and
managing VMware vSphere® 6.5, which includes VMware ESXi™ 6.5 and VMware vCenter Server® 6.5.
This course prepares you to administer a vSphere infrastructure for an organization of any size. It is the
foundation for most other VMware technologies in the software-defined data center.

Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Describe the software-defined data center
• Explain the vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
• Deploy an ESXi host
• Deploy VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™
• Use a local content library as an ISO store and deploy a virtual machine
• Describe vCenter Server architecture
• Use vCenter Server to manage an ESXi host
• Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware Host Client™ and VMware vSphere® Web
Client
• Describe virtual networks with vSphere standard switches
• Configure standard switch policies
• Use vCenter Server to manage various types of host storage: VMware vSphere® VMFS, NFS, iSCSI,
and RDM
• Examine the features and functions of Fibre Channel and VMware vSAN™
• Manage virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
• Create, clone, and deploy a vApp
• Describe and use the content library
• Migrate virtual machines with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
• Use VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion® to migrate virtual machine storage
• Monitor resource usage and manage resource pools
• Use esxtop to identify and solve performance issues
• Discuss the VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster architecture
• Configure vSphere HA
• Manage vSphere HA and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
• Use VMware vSphere® Replication™ and VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ to replicate virtual
machines and perform data recovery
• Use VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ clusters to improve host scalability
• Use VMware vSphere® Update Manager™ to apply patches and perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi
hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations

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Target Audience
• System administrators
• System engineers

Prerequisites
This course requires the following prerequisites:
• System administration experience on Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems

Certifications
This course prepares you for the following certification:
• VMware Certified Professional 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6.5-DCV)
Course Delivery Options Product Alignment
• Classroom • ESXi 6.5
• Live Online • vCenter Server 6.5
• On Demand
• Onsite

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Course Modules
1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Describe the content of this course
• Gain a complete picture of the VMware
certification system
• Familiarize yourself with the benefits of the
VMware Education Learning Zone
• Identify additional resources
2 Introduction to vSphere and the Software-
Defined Data Center
• Describe the topology of a physical data center
• Explain the vSphere virtual infrastructure
• Define the files and components of virtual
machines
• Describe the benefits of using virtual machines
• Explain the similarities and differences between
physical architectures and virtual architectures
• Define the purpose of ESXi
• Define the purpose of vCenter Server
• Explain the software-defined data center
• Describe private, public, and hybrid clouds
3 Creating Virtual Machines
• Introduce virtual machines, virtual machine
hardware, and virtual machine files
• Identify the files that make up a virtual machine
• Discuss the latest virtual machine hardware and
its features
• Describe virtual machine CPU, memory, disk, and
network resource usage
• Explain the importance of VMware Tools™
• Discuss PCI pass-through, Direct I/O, remote
direct memory access, and NVMe
• Deploy and configure virtual machines and
templates
• Identify the virtual machine disk format
4 vCenter Server
• Introduce the vCenter Server architecture
• Deploy and configure vCenter Server Appliance
• Use vSphere Web Client
• Back up and restore vCenter Server
• Examine vCenter Server permissions and roles
• Explain the vSphere HA architectures and
features
• Examine the new vSphere authentication proxy
• Manage vCenter Server inventory objects and
licenses
• Access and navigate the new vSphere clients
5 Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
• Describe, create, and manage standard switches
• Configure virtual switch security and load-
balancing policies
• Contrast and compare vSphere distributed
switches and standard switches
• Describe the virtual switch connection types
• Describe the new TCP/IP stack architecture
• Use VLANs with standard switches
6 Configuring and Managing Virtual Storage
• Introduce storage protocols and storage device
types
• Discuss ESXi hosts using iSCSI, NFS, and Fibre
Channel storage
• Create and manage VMFS and NFS datastores
• Describe the new features of VMFS 6.5
• Introduce vSAN
• Describe guest file encryption
7 Virtual Machine Management
• Use templates and cloning to deploy new virtual
machines
• Modify and manage virtual machines
• Clone a virtual machine
• Upgrade virtual machine hardware to version 12
• Remove virtual machines from the vCenter Server
inventory and datastore
• Customize a new virtual machine using
customization specification files
• Perform vSphere vMotion and vSphere Storage
vMotion migrations
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots
• Create, clone, and export vApps
• Introduce the types of content libraries and how to
deploy and use them
8 Resource Management and Monitoring
• Introduce virtual CPU and memory concepts
• Explain virtual memory reclamation techniques
• Describe virtual machine overcommitment and
resource competition
• Configure and manage resource pools
• Describe methods for optimizing CPU and
memory usage
• Use various tools to monitor resource usage
• Create and use alarms to report certain
conditions or events
• Describe and deploy resource pools
• Set reservations, limits, and shares
• Describe expandable reservations
• Schedule changes to resource settings
• Create, clone, and export vApps
• Use vCenter Server performance charts and
esxtop to analyze vSphere performance
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9 vSphere HA, vSphere Fault Tolerance, and Contact

Protecting Data
• Explain the vSphere HA architecture If you have questions or need help registering for
• Configure and manage a vSphere HA cluster this course, click here.
• Use vSphere HA advanced parameters
• Define clusterwide restart ordering capabilities
• Enforce infrastructural or intra-app dependencies
during failover
• Describe vSphere HA heartbeat networks and
datastore heartbeats
• Introduce vSphere Fault Tolerance
• Enable vSphere Fault Tolerance on virtual
machines
• Support vSphere Fault Tolerance interoperability
with vSAN
• Examine enhanced consolidation of vSphere
Fault Tolerance virtual machines
• Introduce vSphere Replication
• Use vSphere Data Protection to back up and
restore data
10 vSphere DRS
• Describe the functions and benefits of a vSphere
DRS cluster
• Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster
• Work with affinity and anti-affinity rules
• Describe the new capabilities for what-if analysis
and proactive vSphere DRS
• Highlight the evolution of vSphere DRS using
predictive data from VMware vRealize®
Operations Manager™
• Perform preemptive actions to prepare for CPU or
memory changes
• Describe the vCenter Server embedded vSphere
Update Manager, VMware vSphere® ESXi™
Image Builder CLI, and VMware vSphere® Auto
Deploy capabilities
• Use vSphere HA and vSphere DRS together for
business continuity
11 vSphere Update Manager
• Describe the new vSphere Update Manager
architecture, components, and capabilities
• Use vSphere Update Manager to manage ESXi,
virtual machine, and vApp patching
• Install vSphere Update Manager and the vSphere
Update Manager plug-in
• Create patch baselines
• Use host profiles to manage host configuration
compliance
• Scan and remediate hosts

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